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Feeling Hot
by Elle Kennedy
- Who is the Hero? Cash McCoy, Age: 27, Occupation: Navy SEAL
~ Cash is the typical alpha SEAL, but I didn’t really feel like I knew much about him beyond that.
- Who is the Heroine? Jennifer Scott, Age: 26, Occupation: none
~ Jen considered herself the family fuck-up. Her mom was a nurse, her dad a retired admiral and her brother a Navy SEAL. And Jenny?? Well, she couldn’t figure what she wanted to do with her life. Add to that, she got involved with a guy who ended up stalking her. So yup, she knew she was the family failure.
Plot overview:
~ Jen’s last boyfriend doesn’t want to let her go, even when she’s made it extremely clear she wants nothing more to do with him. When he turns a bit stalker-ish, Jen‘s protective older brother enlists Cash (his fellow Navy SEAL) to stand guard. Of course the brother is adamant about “hands off his little sister”.
~ “One more thing I forgot to mention. Keep your hands off my sister.”
Cash frowned. “I wasn’t planning on—”
“I’m serious. You touch her, and I’ll drown you. Your building’s got a pool in the back, so I won’t have to go far.”
“You’ll drown me? That’s the most creative death you can come up with?”
“I’m in the navy. I do my best work in the water. And don’t think I’m kidding, McCoy. Touch my little sister and you’re a dead man. She’s off-limits.”
But of course no matter how much Cash tries to resist, the little temptress Jen is someone he can’t say no to.
**The following are my thoughts about this book: **
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* * I usually like Elle Kennedy books, but some of the female secondary characters just felt like their only purpose was to be used for the guys pleasure.
Right or wrong, my first impression of a couple of the girls was a lack self respect and the men were just manwhores. Maybe if I would’ve read previous books and understood that this is the tone of the series I might’ve felt a different way. But just jumping into this book first and then learning it’s really all about sex and threesomes, my first impression was negative.
* * Cash has a descriptive threesome scene before he actually sleeps with Jen and it annoyed me. It was two days after he “almost” slept with her. So he had already met, been somewhat intimate with her and then he had this threesome. It won’t bother some people, but I don’t like my hero to have sex with other women after he’s met the heroine.
* * apparently Everyone in this series needs to have threesomes. The book started out with Savannah, Matt and Aidan. Next was Vanessa, Dylan, Cash. Then Annabelle mentioned her threeesomes with Ryan, it was mentioned how Carson used to have threesomes with Garrett. Then Cash, Jen and Dylan rounded out the threesomes for this book. Honestly, it became redundant rather than exciting and enticing.
* * there’s a lot of sex in this story and I thought it overpowered the plot. I’m not one to shy away from sex, but it seemed like every chapter someone was getting lucky or their pants were tenting / panties were wet because they were so turned on.
* * I needed character depth. It was very one dimensional
* * there was a secondary plot with one of the couples from the previous book having marital problems. About as much time was spent on the stalker story as the other couple’s marriage issue. However, no great depth on that plot either and it was apparently resolved with communication
~ Cash is the typical alpha SEAL, but I didn’t really feel like I knew much about him beyond that.
- Who is the Heroine? Jennifer Scott, Age: 26, Occupation: none
~ Jen considered herself the family fuck-up. Her mom was a nurse, her dad a retired admiral and her brother a Navy SEAL. And Jenny?? Well, she couldn’t figure what she wanted to do with her life. Add to that, she got involved with a guy who ended up stalking her. So yup, she knew she was the family failure.
Plot overview:
~ Jen’s last boyfriend doesn’t want to let her go, even when she’s made it extremely clear she wants nothing more to do with him. When he turns a bit stalker-ish, Jen‘s protective older brother enlists Cash (his fellow Navy SEAL) to stand guard. Of course the brother is adamant about “hands off his little sister”.
~ “One more thing I forgot to mention. Keep your hands off my sister.”
Cash frowned. “I wasn’t planning on—”
“I’m serious. You touch her, and I’ll drown you. Your building’s got a pool in the back, so I won’t have to go far.”
“You’ll drown me? That’s the most creative death you can come up with?”
“I’m in the navy. I do my best work in the water. And don’t think I’m kidding, McCoy. Touch my little sister and you’re a dead man. She’s off-limits.”
But of course no matter how much Cash tries to resist, the little temptress Jen is someone he can’t say no to.
**The following are my thoughts about this book: **
* *
* * I usually like Elle Kennedy books, but some of the female secondary characters just felt like their only purpose was to be used for the guys pleasure.
Right or wrong, my first impression of a couple of the girls was a lack self respect and the men were just manwhores. Maybe if I would’ve read previous books and understood that this is the tone of the series I might’ve felt a different way. But just jumping into this book first and then learning it’s really all about sex and threesomes, my first impression was negative.
* * Cash has a descriptive threesome scene before he actually sleeps with Jen and it annoyed me. It was two days after he “almost” slept with her. So he had already met, been somewhat intimate with her and then he had this threesome. It won’t bother some people, but I don’t like my hero to have sex with other women after he’s met the heroine.
* * apparently Everyone in this series needs to have threesomes. The book started out with Savannah, Matt and Aidan. Next was Vanessa, Dylan, Cash. Then Annabelle mentioned her threeesomes with Ryan, it was mentioned how Carson used to have threesomes with Garrett. Then Cash, Jen and Dylan rounded out the threesomes for this book. Honestly, it became redundant rather than exciting and enticing.
* * there’s a lot of sex in this story and I thought it overpowered the plot. I’m not one to shy away from sex, but it seemed like every chapter someone was getting lucky or their pants were tenting / panties were wet because they were so turned on.
* * I needed character depth. It was very one dimensional
* * there was a secondary plot with one of the couples from the previous book having marital problems. About as much time was spent on the stalker story as the other couple’s marriage issue. However, no great depth on that plot either and it was apparently resolved with communication